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  • Isuma Video on Demand

    uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

    Isuma’s exhibition in cyberspace presents a collection of Isuma and other indigenous-language films, including Atanarjuat The Fast Runner (Cannes Camera d’Or 2001); The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (opening film at 2006 Toronto International Film Festival); Before Tomorrow (by Igloolik’s Arnait women’s collective); Edge of the Knife<… Read more

    uploaded date: 12-03-2019

  • Isuma Collection

    uploaded by: David Ertel

    channel: Venice 2019

    In 1985 Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn, Paul Apak and elder Pauloosie Qulitalik formed Igloolik Isuma Productions, incorporated in 1990 to produce independent media art from an Inuit point of view. In 2001 Isuma’s first feature, Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, won the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.… Read more

    uploaded date: 27-02-2019

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  • One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk

    uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

    One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk compresses Piugattuk’s 96-year lifetime into a dramatized feature film portrait of one day in that life, a 24-hour day when the sun never sets, out hunting seals on the spring sea ice in May 1961, in the Igloolik region of north Baffin Island.

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    uploaded date: 01-05-2019

  • Digital Indigenous Democracy (DID)

    uploaded by: David Ertel

    channel: Venice 2019

    An experimental internet network created in 2012 to inform and consult Inuit in low-bandwidth communities facing development from the Baffinland Iron Mine and other resource projects, to help define standards of ‘inform and consult’ now required by Canadian and international law.… Read more

    uploaded date: 27-02-2019

  • Isuma's Online Exhibition

    uploaded by: David Ertel

    channel: Venice 2019

    In the spirit of media democracy, Isuma's exhibition at the 58th Biennale di Venezia has a parallel exhibition accessible to anyone with an Internet connection through www.isuma.tv and The Isuma Book.… Read more

    uploaded date: 08-03-2019

  • The Fast Runner Trilogy

    uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

    Three unique Inuit films: Atanarjuat The Fast Runner; The Journals of Knud Rasmussen; and Before Tomorrow, express the dramatic history of one of the world’s oldest oral cultures from it’s own point of view. “A masterpiece... The first national cinema of the 21st century.” – A.O.… Read more

    uploaded date: 23-01-2015

  • Tungijuq

    uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

    Internationally renowned Inuit throat-singer Tanya Tagaq, and Cannes-winning filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, talk back to the anti seal-hunting lobby, in this thought-provoking and meditative short film, on the seal-hunt and what it means to the traditional way of life of the Inuit.

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    uploaded date: 23-01-2015

  • Virtual Museum

    uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

    Kingulliit" refers to the generation of Inuits born in the first thirty years of the 20th century. They were called the "next generation" because they were the first in centuries to confront a world fundamentally different from the unchanging and known world mastered by countless generations since time immemorial.… Read more

    uploaded date: 29-06-2018

  • DIAMA

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

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    DIAMA preserves irreplaceable Inuit and Aboriginal media archives at risk of being lost. IsumaTV cleans, reformats, digitizes and uploads priceless audio-visual materials collected since the 1970s.… Read more

    uploaded date: 01-02-2010

  • Hunting With My Ancestors

    uploaded by: AHadmin

    In the seven part series, Hunting with my Ancestors, Zacharias Kunuk retraces the hunting traditions of his ancestors in a modern context. He follows Inuit elders leading the hunts for whale, walrus, seal, fish, caribou and polar bear. We hear them recount stories of the past, share the pain of forced relocations, and teach a younger generation how to hunt.… Read more

    uploaded date: 28-09-2016

  • Amitturmiut

    uploaded by: kienan

    Amitturmiut is the companion website for Angirattut (Coming Home), providing support documentation and bonus footage, to give viewers a more in-depth look.

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    uploaded date: 30-03-2015

  • Time Machine

    uploaded by: Gabriela Gamez

    What is Time Machine?

    Time Machine is a project designed to make comic stories on the web using computers, iPods or any mobile device. Elders and youth can share stories and turn them into comics. When finished, a comic book is printed so everyone can share with friends, family, and people around the world!

    … Read more

    uploaded date: 18-06-2015

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